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Widening Hammond Drive, adding bike lanes and more sidewalks — these are all on the table for potential future plans for the corridor that connects Sandy Springs and Dunwoody.

At an April 21 open house at Dunwoody City Hall, residents got a chance to look at proposed plans for five sections of the Ham-mond Road corridor: Glenridge Drive to Barfield Road; Barfield Road to Concourse Parkway; Concourse Parkway to Peachtree

BY JOHN [email protected]

A 9-acre shopping center at 7300 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs will hit the market for some type of redevelopment, according to its property manager. But first, the own-ers are dealing with a former dry cleaner’s chemical pollution, which the state worries may be entering nearby homes as vapor.

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Lupita Sanchez, 7, left, and Heaven Hanson, 11, right, got busy on April 16, in support of the Volunteer for a Better Sandy Springs event, sponsored by Leadership Sandy Springs. Lupita helped spread mulch in a vegetable garden at Ison Springs Elementary School,

while Heaven cleaned up leaves in Hammond Park. All volunteers were provided breakfast and a T-shirt for their efforts.

The Sandy Springs Reporter plans to host a forum on Wednesday, May 4, so voters can meet and question candidates running for the District 3 seat on Sandy Springs City Council in a special election May 24.

Five candidates — Chris Burnett, Brian Eufinger, Joe Houseman, Suzi Voyles and Larry Young — are running.

The forum will be held in Heritage Hall, Heritage Sandy Springs’ facility at 6110 Blue Stone Road. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and continue until 8:30 p.m. To find out more about the candidates, see our Voters Guide on pages 12-13 or at ReporterNewspa-pers.net.

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Sandy Springs has the right founda-tion in place to build urban trails con-necting its scattered parks, trail expert Chuck Flink told a big crowd at the Sandy Springs Conservancy’s annual “Thought Leaders” dinner April 13. He called for a city “greenprint”—the parks version of a blueprint—to shape a green future.

“I traveled down Roswell Road today and I understand the angst,” said Flink, president of North Carolina-based con-sulting firm Greenways, Inc., who has worked on hundreds of trail plans across the country. But, he added, “The quality of the parks you have in this community is really, really high…This is a great lega-cy to build on.”

Flink said Sandy Springs also has great examples close to home in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood—the PATH400 multi-use trail, which has a planned ex-tension into Sandy Springs, and the “Buckhead Collection” master plan for interconnected parks and trails.

“The PATH400 is a wonderful oppor-tunity for this community,” Flink said at the dinner at the Westin Atlanta Perime-ter North hotel, adding that the Atlanta BeltLine park/trail system it connects to is “the most amazing public works proj-ect in the U.S. today.”

Also at the dinner, the Conservancy, a parks advocacy and funding organiza-tion, gave its annual Greenspace Cham-pion Award to a local hero of the biggest park within city limits: Park Ranger Jer-ry Hightower of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.

Flink ia an advocate of “greenways,” meaning any type of park-style trail—whether paved or unpaved, or follow-ing a natural feature like a river or a hu-man-made one like an old railroad bed. In the late 1990s, he worked on some of the area’s earliest trail plans, including the Chattahoochee River master plan and Cobb County’s Silver Comet Trail.

The nationwide trail trend is driven by demographic changes, Flink said. The millennial generation wants less car-on-ly transportation, and the rapid pace of development in the South’s population boom can create feelings of dislocation.

“I’m not surprised to be in Sandy Springs having this conversation…about a sense of place,” Flink said of the chang-ing suburban city in the heart of the na-tion’s fastest-growing “mega-region.”

As part of its wide-ranging “Next Ten” planning process, Sandy Springs is sketching out a yet-to-be-defined network of greenways. Flink praised the Next Ten consultants and said Sandy Springs will end up with a top-notch plan.

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Chuck Flink, president of Greenways, Inc., speaks at the Sandy Springs Conservancy’s annual “Thought Leaders” dinner on April 13.

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Senior housing at church site denied by Planning Commission


A proposal to replace a church with a 201-unit senior housing building met dis-approval from the Sandy Springs Plan-ning Commission on April 21.

“I think this would be great if it wasn’t so grandiose and large [and] sitting on top of a hill,” said commission chair Lane Frostbaum, echoing residents’ concerns about the plan’s height and density.

In January, Parc Communities pro-posed the luxury senior housing complex to replace the Apostles Church at Glen-ridge and Hammond drives. The plan includes three interconnected sections ranging from five stories and over 75-feet tall on Hammond to three stories on the Glenridge side.

Chip Collins, an attorney for Parc, not-ed the city’s land-use plan calls for more senior housing. He said that Hammond Drive is home to the King and Queen sky-scrapers—the city’s tallest buildings—and said this project is “the right transi-tion” between dense and single-family

areas.But several residents disagreed, in-

cluding Glenridge Hammond Neighbor-hood Association president Steve Oppen-heimer and Steve Berson, an Aberdeen Forest Homeowners Association board member.

“So much for privacy, seclusion and enjoying the outdoors,” said Berson, de-scribing the proposed building as loom-ing over his Glenairy Drive backyard with 45 windows.

Scott Nelson, a resident of an adja-cent property on Glenridge, made a sim-ilar statement at the first community meeting in January. But at the planning commission meeting, he had changed his mind, voicing fears of a “domino effect” of development on Glenridge.

City planning staff members had recommended denying Parc’s request, which includes rezoning, a use permit and a height variance.

The planning commission voted to recommend denial to the Sandy Springs City Council, which will make the final decision next month.

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The Fortune 500 company Newell Brands this year made the shortest of cor-porate headquarters relocations, mov-ing about a third of a mile within Sandy Springs. But it was also a giant leap into the millennial generation, a switch from a self-contained suburban campus to a transit-oriented site where hang-out spac-es are more common than assigned desks.

“This new headquarters has a more res-idential feel to it,” said David Sheehan of the architecture firm Perkins + Will and who was on the Newell headquarters de-sign team. “Generally, this is the way cor-porate America is going.”

Major corporations are increasingly fleeing massive, remote compounds for glass-walled, urban buildings near public transit. “A number of [corporations] are now saying, ‘We did this whole suburban thing. It’s done,’” said Mark Hinshaw, a principal at the Seattle architecture firm Walker Macy who has written about cor-porate headquarter moves.

A major national example is General Electric’s recently announced move from suburban Connecticut to inner-city Bos-ton. It’s also a trend in the once subur-ban but increasingly urbanized Perime-ter Center. Mercedes-Benz USA is moving from New Jersey’s office parks to a San-dy Springs site designed with cubicle-free “collaborative” workspaces and paired with a housing development. State Farm’s

new regional headquarters, going up in Dunwoody, will be directly connected to a MARTA station.

These changes to the classic corporate campus model are propelled by the same force behind the push for apartments, mixed-use development and “walkability”: the millennial generation market.

“In my view, all of this is being driv-en by the millennials,” said Hinshaw. “It’s their taste. It’s their generation. What they want is what they’re getting.

“They don’t want private spaces. They don’t want hierarchical things. They want it to be more democratic—more Bernie Sand-ers,” he added with a laugh. “They want to live in apartments, live in a neighborhood. And they also don’t want to drive a car.”

It’s a reversal of the corporate campus trend, which also tracked housing pat-terns—at the time, white-collar workers fleeing cities for suburbs. One trend-set-ter was Connecticut General Life Insur-ance Company’s 1957 move to a sprawling, college-like campus only accessible by car.

Hinshaw has written about the dramat-ic headquarters change at one Fortune 500 company, the timber giant Weyerhaeuser. In 1972, the company built a spectacular HQ with a greenery-covered terraced roof on a gigantic 400-acre campus in subur-ban Washington state. But this year, Wey-erhaeuser is moving to a modest-looking, glass-walled building in downtown Seat-tle—with only 50 parking spaces.

Hinshaw says that Weyerhaeuser’s move typifies the trend. It’s mostly about millenni-

als, but also about being closer to academic centers, responding to today’s more diverse workforce and moving away from “fortress-like” buildings to one reflecting new goals like environmental sustainability.

“There was a good, long era…where [corporations] wanted iconic, bold, strik-ing buildings set against the landscape…the counterpart to European royalty who wanted castles and piazzas,” Hinshaw said. Today, he said, companies are more inclined “to blend into the area and not be a literal target…I think that’s also a delib-erate move to integrate their workforce with general society.”

Newell Brands—home of many house-hold products, from Rubbermaid to Sharpie—had to react rapidly to these trends only 10 years after its last head-quarters redesign, said Sheehan, who worked on both projects.

It was previously located on secluded, leafy Glenlake Parkway in a building with each floor devoted to one of the company’s major sub-brands. Now it’s on Peachtree-Dunwoody Road, Perimeter Center’s main drag, with an open design inspired more by Starbucks than cubicles, and living

rooms rather than board rooms.“In the previous headquarters, we had

designed a fitness center there [and] a full-service cafeteria…and that was all de-signed to keep people in the building and on campus,” said Sheehan. In the new building, workers are expected to walk or take the nearby MARTA to local restau-rants and a gym, though the company still provides a shower and locker room.

Inside, desks haven’t vanished, but “part of the workforce doesn’t really have an assigned desk per se,” Sheehan said. Spots considered workspaces include “huddle rooms,” lounges, a café with a fireplace, and a terrace and roof deck for outdoor gatherings.

Of course, the millennial generation, too, will pass, and its stereotyped prefer-ences aren’t really suited for every worker or company, Sheehan and Hinshaw said. There are risks in being too trendy, Hin-shaw said, but the bigger risk right now lies in not giving the millennial workforce what it wants.

“If they don’t get it, they’re not going to work for [the company],” he said.

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Major Pill Hill mixed-use project would replace residential streetBY JOHN [email protected]

A developer plans to buy an entire street of homes bordering Pill Hill to build a major mixed-use project fronting on the Glenridge Connector.

All owners along western Clement-stone Drive—a cul-de-sac of eight single-family homes off Peachtree-Dunwoody Road in Sandy Springs—have agreed to sell to developer Richmond Honan, said Joe Cannon, a real estate broker with KW Commercial Atlanta Perimeter.

“Yes, the entire street,” said Cannon of the Clementstone plan, which cov-ers roughly 13 acres and would build a new road onto the Connector at the ex-isting Meridian Mark Drive intersection. “We’ve been working with [the home-owners] for months…It’s going to be a mixed-use deal.”

Plans are in the very early stage, Can-non said. But the general idea involves retail space fronting on the Connector, along with senior housing—independent and assisted living—and possibly some doctors’ offices to serve it. The southern, rear section would have “some extremely high-end luxury homes.”

The plans are so preliminary that Can-non could not give specific unit counts or heights or even say whether the homes would be single family or townhomes. More details will be available by next month, when the developer will present the plan to the High Point Civic Associa-tion, a Sandy Springs community organi-zation, according to the broker and HPCA member Bill Gannon.

“I think like everyone it feels it needs to be redeveloped,” Cannon, the broker, said of Clementstone, “but there’s going to be a huge variety of opinions as to how it should be redeveloped and the density of the redevelopment.”

A Richmond Honan representative could not offer immediate comment, but did confirm the company’s involvement in a Clementstone Drive plan. Alpharet-ta-based Richmond Honan is a nationally known developer of medical offices and hospitals. It has built on Pill Hill before, including a Northside Hospital tower and the Meridian Mark Plaza medical build-ing across the Connector from the pro-posed Clementstone project.

Northside Hospital owns one of those Clementstone Drive houses, which it bought in 2014, according to property records. Cannon said that the hospital might occupy some of the medical office space in the proposed redevelopment,

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A new Sandy Springs business called My Pooch Face is working like a dog, pro-ducing custom portrait paintings of pets for hundreds of clients across the country.

“We got it down to an art,” said Da-vid Lefkovitz, the local entrepreneur who launched the web-based pet portrait busi-ness 10 months ago. Since then, the compa-ny has shipped more than 900 “pawtraits” to customers around the country.

Despite the name, the company paints virtually any furry pet, from cats to pigs to, in one recent case, a zebra. The acrylic paintings on canvas—in natural tones or with touches of psychedelic col-or—are done by a team of artists whose work is supervised and finished by Aziz Kadmiri, a Woodstock painter whose clients include the pop star Usher.

Seeing a painting Kadmiri had made

of a dog inspired Lefkovitz to create the company—but not because he wanted a canine portrait of his own. As it happens, Lefkovitz has no furry pets—and for a good reason.

“We’re hyperallergenic. We have fish and turtles,” Lefkovitz said. “I was the only one who didn’t have a pet [dog or cat] go-ing into this.”

But he did see the response to Kad-miri’s dog painting, which the artist had posted on Facebook, and he sensed oppor-tunity. Lefkovitz is best known in business circles as co-founder of his family real es-tate company, LEFKO Group, but he also has a background in software and oper-ates a small company called Niche Digital Brands. He saw that custom pet portraits would have a big market and could be eas-ily publicized on social media.

The result has been strong sales with a soft launch—the full My Pooch Face web-site just went live two months ago. The company joined the likes of Coca-Cola in winning one of this year’s MAX Awards, an honor for marketing skills given by Georgia State University’s business school and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

My Pooch Face came from a business calculation, but Lefkovitz said he’s struck by the warm and fuzzy side.

“This is the first business I’ve been in where I’ve seen this level of intensity and love for the product,” he said.

People variously buy the portraits, he said, as “celebrations” of current pets, as gifts for others, and as memorials when “their furbaby has passed.”

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Northside spokesperson Katherine Watson did not have immediate com-ment about the Richmond Honan plan. Northside owns a large vacant property at Meridian Mark Drive and the Connec-tor, opposite the Meridian Mark Plaza. Watson recently said that the hospital has no plans for that property at this time.

Cannon said the Clementstone project should have no impact on local school capacity. He said it would aid traffic by making the main access via the new road proposed to intersect with the Glenridge

Connector, while either entirely shutting Clementstone or turning it into a limited-use driveway.

The luxury housing component, he said, is intended as a “nice transition” from the residential West Kingston Drive area to the south and the proposed, dens-er use along the Connector.

The Clementstone plan comes as part of a major Pill Hill construction boom. A new Ronald McDonald House recent-ly opened on Peachtree-Dunwoody be-tween the Glenridge Connector and Cle-mentstone. The HPCA’s Gannon noted that with that project done, “now it is time for the next domino to fall” along Clementstone.

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Create Your Cupcake, located at 203 Hilderbrand Dr., in Sandy Springs, recently noted its opening with a ribbon cutting. From left, Suzanne Brown, vice president/client relations, Sandy Springs Perimeter Chamber, Ariela Fajardo, store manager, Erica Rocker-Wills, Barbara Hart, co-owner, City Councilman John Paulson, Steve Hart, co-owner, Thomas Morgan, manager, Angela

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OPINION / Monumental memories

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Confederate monuments and memo-rials have stirred discussion in the South for decades. Debate over keeping or re-moving them, however, intensified after the Charleston tragedy in June 2015, bring-ing renewed attention to existing Confed-erate iconography. Across the South, from New Orleans to Baltimore, Americans have since attempted to find solutions to ad-dressing these legacies of the Civil War in public life.

At the Atlanta History Center, we be-lieve that these monuments can be valu-able educational tools; in particular, as tangible signs of the Jim Crow era. Our suggestion is that communities consider converting them into historical artifacts by providing adjacent in-terpretive signage and even educational pro-gramming to tell the history of those who erected these monu-ments and why. Most importantly, to tell the stories of the people they were intended to diminish.

Even with such ef-forts, debate over Con-federate monuments has persisted and will continue into the fu-ture. But this is exact-ly why the monuments are so important to keep, provided we talk about the real reasons they were put there in the first place.

Following the Civil War, between 1870 and 1890, many monuments were built and placed in cemeteries, mourning Con-federate dead. These earlier monuments were usually obelisks, adorned with fu-neral drapes. The majority of monuments found in the South today, though, are of a different time and character - originally

built between 1890 and 1920. These monu-ments were placed in public locations – in town squares, courthouse lawns and col-leges. They are often more elaborate, de-picting soldiers or Confederate leaders. These latter monuments were products of an era defined by Jim Crow, which re-inforced and affirmed a white supremacy worldview through veneration of the Lost Cause.

As is true with all monuments, Confed-erate ones are meant to promote and sus-tain a memory. When we discuss memo-ry of the Civil War in the South, we can talk about the staggering percentage of white Southerners killed defending the Confed-

eracy, but we cannot de-fend historically inac-curate reasons for the war’s cause. We must also talk about how de-feat of the Confedera-cy, which fought to pre-serve slavery, led to 42 percent of the South’s entire population, four million black Southern-ers, being freed from bondage.

History is not some-thing we use just to make ourselves feel better. If that were the case, we would be talk-ing about heritage – which I define as his-tory without all the unpleasant parts. Her-itage is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be obstructive when it

causes us to ignore the more complex real-ities of history. History makes us take the next step: It asks us to question and consid-er the past and its issues deeply – good, bad and in between.

Monuments are constant reminders that we need to address our collective his-tory together and openly. The past is al-

To the editor:Joe Earle wrote a column about a Yan-

kee transplant named Bill Browning who has joined a Sons of Union Veterans her-itage group. [“These ‘Sons’ honor the Union,” Reporter Newspapers, April 15-28.] I took offense at a transplant moving here and joining a Union heritage group.

Remember, history books were writ-ten by the victorious North. Americans get a distorted view of the Civil War, which should be called the “War of Northern Ag-gression.” Southern states freely joined

the Union, wanted to exercise their free will and leave, and there was nothing in the Constitution that prevented the South from leaving. Even though the South nev-er threatened the North, Lincoln sent sav-age Union troops to completely destroy the South. This was followed by waves of Yan-kee carpetbaggers who exploited the dev-astated South. The Civil War was fought by the North, not to free the slaves, but to forc-ibly keep the South in the Union. This was America’s greatest act of imperialism.

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A Confederate monument stands at the DeKalb County Courthouse.

ways more com-plicated than it seems.

As a commit-ted grassroots preservationist, I believe the re-moval of histori-cal objects from the landscape almost always serves to diminish us and our collec-tive story. I think it’s much better to keep these mon-uments. But, if we keep them, we cannot maintain the status quo. We must trans-form them from objects of veneration into historical artifacts that can tell the story of why so many of them were erected: as a ve-hicle to celebrate the Confederacy during the time of Jim Crow segregation. Confed-erate monuments are among our last tan-gible links to that disturbing era in Amer-ican history.

However, I believe the decision to move, remove or retain is inherently local. To help communities start the conversation and grasp the broader historical perspec-tive monuments can provide, the Atlan-ta History Center has developed an edu-cational online resource. On our website, visitors will find the latest literature and news, concerning issues surrounding Con-federate monuments and national memo-ry. Additionally, a key feature of the site is a “Confederate Monument Interpretation Template,” which offers contextual text that communities can incorporate on in-formational signage that they design.

Earlier this month, in fact, 33 members of the University of Mississippi history fac-ulty proposed using text from the template for their most contentious monument on campus. After a previous attempt to con-textualize the statue was met with criti-cism, the history faculty pulled language from our model to link their monument to the legacy of the Civil War, the Lost Cause narrative and the Jim Crow era.

We encourage local communities to use these resources to develop their own solu-tions to addressing monuments.

Today, we are presented with an oppor-tunity to openly discuss the underlying is-sues that have often divided us and contin-ue to divide us. Rather than censoring the past, let’s encourage an understanding of its complexity.Let us look at these monu-ments from a different perspective – as ar-tifacts that can help explain a difficult peri-od in history.

The past has much to teach us about who we are and where we are – if we let it.

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Wilkinson works to bring a war dog to the silver screenBY JOHN [email protected]

When Republican Rep. Joe Wilkinson dropped his re-election bid last month, he said his retirement plans included work-ing on an animated movie about a heroic World War I military dog named Sergeant Stubby.

Wilkinson is presi-dent of Fun Academy Motion Pictures, the film company mak-ing “Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero,” he said in a recent inter-view. And Fun Acade-my’s parent company, Ireland-based mili-tary documentary maker Labyrinth Me-dia, will open a new office in Buckhead as the film’s “command center,” said Laby-rinth spokesperson Jordan Beck.

“Growing up, who didn’t want to be Walt Disney?” said Wilkin-son, adding that the work matches his love of mil-itary history and of the adoption of homeless dogs. (He successfully led a legislative effort this year to name the “adopt-able dog” as Georgia’s state dog.)

According to the “Sgt. Stubby” website, the film will be directed by Dan St. Pierre, an animator on such Disney films as “The Lion King” and “The Little Mermaid,” and scored by Pat-rick Doyle of “Thor” and “Cinderella.”

“If you Google ‘Sergeant Stubby,’ you’re going to be amazed,” said Wilkinson.

Stubby was a stray adopted by soldiers training at Yale University during World War I and was smuggled onto the front lines.

“He caught a German spy. He, because of his great sense of smell, could sense gas attacks ahead of time,” said Wilkinson. The dog also reputedly won over skeptical com-manding officers because “they had taught him how to salute.”

“This is all true. It’s really neat,” Wilkin-son said.

Bedecked with medals, Stubby became a nationally known mascot of the war ef-fort. “When Stubby died in 1926, he was stuffed and put into the Smithsonian,” Wilkinson said. The Smithsonian’s Na-tional Museum of American History web-site features a page about its exhibit of the stuffed war dog.

Wilkinson said he met Labyrinth exec-utives through his work with the Nation-al Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force near Savannah.

“I’m an amateur military historian,” said Wilkinson, adding that he has helped several World War II veterans edit their memoirs.

Labyrinth’s films include the World War II series “The American Road to Victory” that aired on PBS. Wilkin-son said he did some marketing and distri-bution work for Laby-rinth, then became in-volved in their Sergeant Stubby project, an ani-mated film.

Wilkinson said he was made president of Fun Academy Mo-tion Pictures, a division of Labyrinth created to make the Sergeant Stubby movie. “They had the talent” on the

creative side, Wilkinson said. “Labyrinth was saying they needed someone who could basically coordinate, lead meetings and manage this project. It fits my skill set. I couldn’t tell you much about [film] production, but I know how to manage. It’s something I just said I’d love to do.”

Wilkinson is a retired Coca-Cola executive and held commands in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

He said “Sgt. Stubby” is still in the fi-nancing stage. While various crew mem-bers may work in other cities and coun-tries, the production will be coordinated by Wilkinson in Atlanta, Beck said.

“We would have loved to do [the entire film] in Georgia, of course,” said Wilkinson. But Fun Academy will open an Atlanta of-fice on Northside Parkway near North At-lanta High School. Beck said the office will serve “Sgt. Stubby” for now and possibly other Labyrinth productions in the future.

“We are looking forward to working with [Wilkinson] as we develop Fun Acad-emy projects in Georgia, utilizing the grow-ing infrastructure and talent pool offered here to create educational and entertain-ing stories with an international appeal,” Beck said.

The producers are hoping “Sgt. Stubby” will get a distribution deal and be released in 2018, according to the film’s website. Wilkinson said it will be worth the wait.

“It’s very much like [Steven Spielberg’s 2011 film] ‘War Horse,’ but not as intense and dark,” he said.

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Five candidates seek the vacant Dis-trict 3 seat on Sandy Springs City Council in a special election May 24. The Sandy Springs Reporter asked each of them ques-tions about their qualifications for the job. Here are edited versions of their respons-es. To see their complete answers as well as information provided by candidates seek-ing other local offices in the May 24 elec-tion, go to ReporterNewspapers.net.

Chris H. BurnettCommunity Bank-er, Bank of Sandy Springs

Past political ex-perience: none.Other experience in community: member of the

Next 10 Strategic Planning Committee; past member of the City Springs Citi-zens Review Committee; 10-year board member of the Sandy Springs/Perime-ter Chamber of Commerce and two-time chairman; member of the city’s Eco-nomic Advisory Council; former board member of the Sandy Springs Conser-vancy; member of the Sandy Springs Civic Scholarship Fund; member of the

Holy Innocents’ School Board of Trustees; mem-ber of the Sandy Springs Rotary Club; member of the YMCA Camp High Harbor Board.

Q: Why should the voters choose you? A: For over 20 years, I have been an ac-tive and dedicated community volun-teer who has led organizations in our city that are making a real difference in the quality for life for our residents. My extensive community involvement gives me a broad breadth and depth of experience in many of the city’s most important initiatives, and my 36 years as a community banker gives me a deep understanding of financial and budget-ary matters.

Q: What do you see as the biggest prob-lem facing the city?

A: With an absence of a well-planned and properly executed strategic growth initiative, Sandy Springs runs the risk of growing so quickly and so large that we smother in our success. As leaders, we must bring a balanced strategy of smart, well-managed growth that en-hances our quality of life for genera-tions to come.

BrianEufingerEducation entrepreneur

Past political experience: none.Other experience in commu-nity: Founder of the Sandy Springs Zoning Coalition and Keep Moving Sandy Springs

Q: Why should the voters choose you?

A: I have a proven track record of be-ing a self-starter and have actively worked on zoning issues these past few years, earning the respect of citizens and community leaders. I’m a pragmat-ic optimist who finds common ground between strong-minded parties. The strategic, financial and analytical skills I honed as a strategist would be an as-set for the City Council. I already do tre-mendous work for the community each week in an unofficial capacity via my zoning work and the Sandy Springs Zoning Coalition.


A: The biggest problem facing our city is achieving the right balance of smart growth. A thriving city requires safe communities, strong schools and a thriving business base that create an environment where people can live, work and play. While we are not ever going back to Mayberry as a city, we as a community should not rubber-stamp the current swath of proposed large developments just because they were proposed; we owe devel-opers a fair consideration of reason-ably-sized, tastefully-built structures, nothing more.

Joe HousemanPilot, Delta Air Lines

Past political ex-perience: Elected by Atlanta-based Delta Air Line pi-lots to represent the organization at the Air Line Pi-

lots Association.Other experience in community: Past president of the Delta Pilots Charita-ble Fund and current board member; Church of the Apostles volunteer; for-mer River Chase Homeowners Associ-ation board member; Delta Air Lines Flight Operations representative to the Delta Employee and Retiree Care Fund; professionally trained mentor to new hire pilots at Delta Air Lines.

Q: Why should the voters choose you?A: Simple: As a lifelong citizen of Sandy Springs, I know just about everybody in District 3. As the hometown candidate, neighbors know that they can count on me. Voters should choose me because I am and always have been invested in the good for Sandy Springs.

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I think clearly the greatest issue fac-ing the city is the ever-increasing traf-fic that chokes our streets and wastes our time. The new Braves stadium will affect our district more than most because of our proximity to that ven-ue. The recent closure at Mount Ver-non and Sandy Springs Circle for con-struction has caused an outpouring of frustration from our district. The construction of the new I-285/River-side interchange roundabouts is also causing concerns. This interchange has always been a thorn in the side of the community during afternoon drive time.

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A: Traffic and economic development go hand-in-hand when it comes to en-suring positive growth and opportu-nities for our city and the state. If we have a responsive local government that can work with our county and state officials, we can make sure we get the results we need to alleviate local traffic so that Sandy Springs continues to be the best place to raise and family, work and play.

Suzi VoylesExecutive direc-tor, teacher, home-maker

Past political ex-perience: Legis-lative assistant, Gov. Ronald Rea-gan; chairman of multiple state-

wide, national and local campaign di-visions.Other experience in community: Worked for better screening of student athletes to minimize sudden cardiac death; advocated for AEDs in our pub-lic buildings; served on the Southeast-ern Advocacy Board for the American Heart Association/American Stroke As-sociation; co-president of the Wynd-ham Hills Civic Association.

Q: Why should the voters choose you?A: The best leaders are those with a willingness to serve and lead by ex-ample, and I have demonstrated these characteristics throughout my career. I am honest and hardworking, loyal and dependable. It is a natural ability of mine to create a workable solution, even when having to navigate pessimis-tic attitudes. Also, I am able to estab-lish a positive rapport with others, and this will be a beneficial resource to cre-ating strong associations profitable to the city. I have years of legislative and policy experience on both the national and state level that will be a credit to the City Council.

Lawrence D. Young Attorney, semi-re-tired

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ly vacant, and anchor tenant Big Lots will close in mid-May, according to a manag-er. Some other remaining businesses said they have short-term leases and that there are rumors of redevelopment into apart-ments or condos.

“We do know it’s being sold as a rede-velopment,” but no other details, said Don Goodman of Equitable Management Cor-poration, who manages North Springs Center for an ownership company called North Springs Associates.

According to property records, the cen-ter dates to 1969. It is zoned as a “Communi-ty Business District,” which includes town-homes among the many permitted uses, according to the city website. The city plan-ning department has not received any rede-velopment applications for the site, accord-ing to city spokesperson Sharon Kraun.

Rich Arroll, the broker for the property, said he could not immediately comment at length beyond saying the center is not cur-rently under contract to sell.

Donna Maslia of Parian Properties, who is named in state records as a partner in the ownership company, did not return a phone call. Andrea Rimer, an environmental attor-ney for the owner, declined to comment.

Rimer is involved because of North Springs Associates’ cleanup of the former Prestige Cleaners, a dry cleaner that operat-ed in the center from 1996 until its eviction on Sept. 30, 2015, according to state records. The cleaner leaked toxic dry cleaning sol-vents, according to a unit manager with the state Environmental Protection Division.

“They have quite a bit of contamination in groundwa-ter and also…in the soil,” said EPD Da-vid Brownlee, a unit man-ager with the state Environ-mental Protec-tion Division’s Response and Remediation

Program, which oversees cleanups of con-taminated sites..

The owner notified EPD of the contam-ination on Oct. 1, 2015, Brownlee said, and has been cleaning up the site, with the next report due June 30. The owner has removed a large amount of contaminated soil at the fenced-off Prestige storefront, and soon will do “chemical injections” into the ground to neutralize remaining solvent.

However, EPD on March 31 ordered further testing on whether the polluting chemicals could be entering nearby homes in the form of vapor.

“We had some concern about potential vapor intrusion for residents on the back side,” Brownlee said. “They’re up high on the hill, which is a good thing for them.” But data on that possibility is still being col-lected from test wells, so “we don’t have in-formation” yet, he said.

Abbe Seitzman, president of the North Springs Homeowners Association, which includes those nearby homes, said there have been rumors and conversations circu-lating about the pollution concern, but no solid information. The neighborhood also has heard only rumors about possible sale or redevelopment of the center, she said.

“They haven’t told us how it’s going to be redeveloped. That’s one of the questions we had,” Brownlee said, adding that a resi-dential use would require more thorough pollution cleanup.

“They want to clean up the property so it can be redeveloped or go as a brownfield for sale to some other developer,” Brown-lee added. “That’s why they were aggressive about cleaning it up.”

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This shopping center, anchored by Big Lots, at 7300 Roswell Road, is being sold as a redevelopment.

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It looks a bit like a game cobbled togeth-er during a slow weekend at a vacation house after the host couldn’t track down all the pieces required for any single sport.

Players swing paddles that look like they came from an oversized Ping-Pong game. They hit a hollow plastic ball that’s full of holes. The ball bounces back and forth over a net similar to one on a ten-nis court. The game moves quickly. Some regular players of the sport called “pickle-ball” say it can feel like playing table tennis while standing on the table.

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“It’s fun to watch. It’s fun to play. It’s fun to learn,” Feldstein said one recent morning before he joined the crew get-ting a morning workout with a series of fast-paced pickleball games at the MJCCA, which calls pickleball its “hottest sport.”

Feldstein remembers days when he’d get laughed at when he went into a sport-ing goods store and ask to buy a pickleball paddle. No more, he says, because pickle-ball courts are springing up across north metro Atlanta.

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Dunwoody Parks and Recreation Direc-tor Brent Walker said city officials decided to include the court in the new park after resi-dents asked for it during public meetings. Walker said he’d never heard of the game before those meetings, but its fans were insistent. “There’s a small but strong con-tingent of folks that like to play pickleball,” he said.

Allan Bleich, a retired doctor, said he took up the sport after he stopped playing tennis because of knee trouble. “It’s just a fun way to exercise,” he said.

Nora Floersheim, a 67-year-old retired school teacher and former ten-nis player, picked up pickleball a couple of years ago at the Mar-cus Center and now teaches it to newcomers. Like other pickle-ball fans, she said an important aspect of the game is camarade-rie among the players, who sit to-gether and chat while awaiting a turn on the court. “It’s very, very, very social,” she said.

And the name? How did it get to be “pickleball,” anyway?

It goes back to the or-igin of the game itself. Pickleball was invent-ed near Seattle in 1965 by vacationing fami-lies who wanted to play badminton, but couldn’t find the shuttlecock. So they combined pad-dles, a Wiffle ball and a badminton net to make a game that kids and adults alike could play.

The pickleball as-sociation says one sto-ry is that the origi-nal players named

their game cobbled from many parts af-ter the “pickle boat” in rowing competi-tions, which uses a crew made up of row-ers from different boats. Another version is that they named it for the family dog, Pickles.

Ed Feldstein, left, and Nora Floersheim get ready to volley

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Pickleball players gather in Dunwoody for morning games at the Marcus Jewish

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Wade KovalikNorth Atlanta High School, senior

Wade Kovalik wants to be an aerospace engineer. Or a pilot. Or maybe both.

“My dream would be for an air-craft or rocket design that I worked on to get selected for government or pri-vate contract and to get put into produc-tion,” Wade said. “It would be an awe-some feeling to see something that I helped design actually fly through the air or in space.”

He’s working on it. He builds drones in his free time. And he’s had a intern-ship at the Georgia Tech Aerospace Sys-tems Design Laboratory.

At the same time, Wade’s academic performance landed him in the top 5 per-

cent of his class and he has received mul-tiple honors, including the STAR Student Award, which usually is given to the stu-dent with the highest SAT score in his or her class.

“I have a solid work ethic. It just isn’t in me to do things halfway, especially if it’s for something I genuinely care about,” Wade said. “I love to learn beyond what is taught in the classroom, or even about things that aren’t taught in school at all—like pretty much everything I know about aeronautics and space. Learning about new things is just something I’m really passionate about.”

Wade’s teachers see him as well-rounded, ambitious and hard-working.

“While Wade was my Latin student he was the absolute light of my life,” says Chris-tine Conklin, a teach-er at the Thomas Jef-ferson High School for Science & Technology in Alexandria, Va. “His excellence and dedi-cation to the language was renowned, and certainly appreciated and respected by me.”

Balancing a de-manding academic load with his activities in engineering, Wade also finds time to tu-tor his peers with Mu Alpha Theta. He also plays clarinet in North Atlanta’s Band.

“Wade has an im-pressive resume and we are proud of his accomplishment in being North Atlanta High School’s Class of 2016 STAR Stu-dent,” Senior Direc-tor Daryll Robinson said.

What’s Next?Wade aspires to

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SANDY SPRINGS NOTICE OF VARIANCE PETITION

Petition Number: V16-0035

Petitioner: Charles David Smith

Location: 5410 High Point Rd

Request: Two variances from Section 109-225 of the Development Regulations: Request to encroach into additional 25’ impervious surface setback to the stream buffer for the extension of an existing residence; Request to bring nonconforming structures encroaching in 25’ and 50’ stream buffers and additional 25’ impervious setback into conformity

Public Hearings: Board of Appeals May 12, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

Location: Sandy Springs City Hall Morgan Falls Office Park 7840 Roswell Road, Building 500 Sandy Springs, Georgia 30350 770-730-5600



Petitioner: Spencer Byle

Location: 780 Starlight Lane

Request: One (1) Variance from Land Development Requirements Section 109-225: Request to encroach 18 sq. ft. into 25’ impervious surface setback for existing single family residence (addition outside the buffer)



Police Blotter / Sandy SpringsTaken from Sandy Springs police

reports dated from April 2 to April 13 � The following information was provided

by Capt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Po-lice Department from its reports and is pre-sumed to be accurate.

ROBBERY � 4200 block of Spring Creek Lane – On

April 2, a 20-year-old woman said she met a man on the dating app called “Tinder.” She agreed to meet him at Spring Creek Drive Apartments. The two walked to-ward the back of the building when he pulled a weapon and took $460 from her. He is described 6-feet, 280 pounds

and bald. The sus-pect had a gun with a wooden handle. He may have left in a Dodge Charger. De-tectives are pulling the information on the app to see if they can find and identi-fy a lead on the sus-pect. The woman was not injured.

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� 200 block of Elden Drive – On April 3, someone entered a home by cutting door hinges. A gas stove and micro-

wave were taken.

� 4000 block of Dudley Lane – On April 6, at a new construction site, a basement window was broken and entered. A refrigerator, HVAC units as well as copper piping are missing.

� 8700 block of Roswell Road – On April 11, a person reported a burglar forced entry to the vacant business next door and then into his via a wall. The man was on video and de-scribed as male and wearing a two-tone hood-ed jacket and white shoes.

� 4000 block of Dudley Lane – On April 11, the complainant reported that a home, currently unoccupied, was entered and several items were taken, including a refrigerator, lumber, two planters, a Husqvama backpack blower, chainsaw and other renovation supplies.

� 6300 block of PDR – On April 12, a laptop was stolen from an office during the over-night hours. The suspect apparently pulled open exterior doors, then made his way up a flight a stairs to the second floor, where he lo-cated and took the laptop.

THEFTS � Kenbrook Drive – On April 2, a 19-year-

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� Glenridge Point Parkway – On April 2, a man said he had a check, contained in an envelope, in his pocket that had been mailed to him. He said he later discov-ered the check and envelope fell out. He re-traced his steps and found the envelope. It had been opened and the check was gone.

� 6600 block of Roswell Road – On April 3, someone cut the lock from the victim’s locker at a gym. They took a 22-inch rope chain and pendant.

� A 49-year-old woman reported she was shopping at a grocery store on Northridge and accidentally left her purse in a shop-ping cart. She returned to the store and was told someone turned it in—minus $50 cash. They said the woman who turned the purse in was a female, 5-foot 9-inches and about 110 pounds with long brown hair, dark pants and a white top.

� Churchhill Drive – On April 8, a man re-ported his garden hose stolen. He said he saw a man in his driveway around 4:30 a.m.

� 1100 block of Mount Vernon Higjway – On April 11, a 43-year-old man reported that someone went into his unlocked locker at a gym and took a backpack with his lap-top, Bentley key ring, Mercedes wallet cred-

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Petitioner: GRI Inc.

Location: 5632 River Oaks Place

Request: Variance from Section 109-225 of the Development Regulations: Request to encroach into additional 25’ impervious surface setback to the stream buffer for the construction of a sunroom



SANDY SPRINGS NOTICE OF REZONINGPetition Number: RZ16-0088

Petitioner: Joe Dan Rogers, Dunwoody Place Ventures

Property Location: 0 River Exchange Drive

Present Zoning: C-1 (Community Business District)

Request: Rezone from C-1 (Community Business District) to O-I (Office Institutional District) for the construction of an assisted living facility

Public Hearings: Planning Commission May 19, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

Mayor and City Council June 21, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.


SANDY SPRINGS NOTICE OF ZONING MODIFICATIONPetition Number: ZM16-0015

Petitioner: Duke Realty Group

Property Location: 1100 Johnson Ferry Road

Present Zoning: O-I

Request: Request to modify condition 2(a) of current O-I zoning to substitute site plan dated February 19, 2016 to allow construction of a 450-space park-ing deck

Public Hearings: Planning Commission May 19, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.

Mayor and City Council June 21, 2016 at 6:00 p.m.


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it and debit cards, and an iPhone6 Plus. The theft occurred between 7-9 p.m.

� 8900 block of Carroll Manor Drive – On April 12, a man reported his IRS re-fund was stolen from his mailbox.

� A man reported that he was given pow-er of attorney over an elderly woman and found that her housekeeper had written several checks, amounting to over $8,000, from her account over several years.

AUTO THEFTS � There were seven auto thefts reported

from April 2 through April 5. From April 11 and April 13, there were 11 thefts from autos reported.

FRAUD � A man victim reported on April 2 that

his Social Security number was used to file taxes.

� On April 2, employees of a fast-food restaurant said someone passed a coun-terfeit $20 at the drive-up window. Cops were called. When they arrived, they spoke to the man who showed receipts that he had withdrawn $8,000 from his bank. The officers checked the money and it appeared valid. The $20 bill was placed in evi-dence and the man was re-leased.

� A 29-year-old woman reported her Mas-terCard information had been copied and used for $504.

� A 30-year-old woman reported that while at a bowling alley on Roswell Road, she used a credit card to pay for games. She be-lieves she forgot to retrieve the card. An em-ployee said they found one and left it on the front desk. Someone took the card, using it at the Roswell Walmart and Dick’s Sport-ing Goods in Marietta a short time later.

� 6700 block of Roswell Road – On April 4, a company executive reported that an of-fice manager used a company credit card for personal purchases including Jet’s Piz-za, Target, Kroger, Metlife Auto and Home, Comcast, Georgia Power and a child-care facility. The officer manager since failed to show for work (we call that a clue) and has not been seen. The case was turned over to detectives.

� A 43-year-old woman reported that she was on the job website care.com and com-municated with someone using the name “Mary Roberts,” who offered her a job. The woman received a check for $2,650 which she deposited. The bank notified her that the check was fraudulent and her account was frozen.

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